If you are going to install CloudStreams, create the CloudStreamsEvents database component. CloudStreams Server writes lifecycle (startup/shutdown), error, policy violation, monitoring, performance metric, and, optionally, transaction events to the CloudStreamsEvents database component. CloudStreams Analytics reads the events data and displays it using the MashZone NextGen dashboard. If you have multiple CloudStreams Server instances, create a single CloudStreamsEvents database component for them to share, regardless of whether they are clustered or not clustered.